Sura, the Russian HAARP
The Russian HAARP installation
May 23, 2008
Quite similar to the American installation. Moreover, it predates it by over 10 years:
General view of the Sura antenna array.
The Sura "ionospheric heating" facility is located near the small town of Vasilsursk, close to the Volga River and 100 km from Nizhny Novgorod. It can irradiate up to 190 megawatts in the 4.5 to 9.3 MHz range—equivalent to the power output of a small nuclear power plant (...). This installation was established in 1981 (HAARP in the USA: 1993). What amuses me is that the English Wikipedia article here claims researchers at Sura discovered they could modulate the ionosphere at low frequencies, as if this were a major breakthrough. I've explained this in detail on this page for a long time. Precisely, this is one of the main purposes of such installations: to use the ionosphere as a massive antenna to transmit extremely low frequency signals for communication with submarines (only very low frequencies penetrate deeply into the ocean).
http://www.haarp.alaska.edu/haarp/factSheet.html
Here's what I found by quickly browsing this link:
So for frequencies, it's indeed in MHz (approximately 3 to 10 MHz).
Thus, the system operates within the so-called "shortwave" band.
Regarding power, a total of 3600 kW is indicated (summing up all transmitters).
This appears to be the output power from the transmitters, before it reaches the antennas.
The 190 megawatts of Sura refer to the power at the antenna output, thus including the gain factors of the antennas.
Because the output power from the three Sura transmitters is listed as three times 250 kW.
In any case, it's enormous, and the birds flying over the area must be getting a free tan... ;-)
Here's what I found by quickly browsing this link:
So for frequencies, it's indeed in MHz (approximately 3 to 10 MHz).
Thus, the system operates within the so-called "shortwave" band.
Regarding power, a total of 3600 kW is indicated (summing up all transmitters).
This appears to be the output power from the transmitters, before it reaches the antennas.
The 190 megawatts of Sura refer to the power at the antenna output, thus including the gain factors of the antennas.
Because the output power from the three Sura transmitters is listed as three times 250 kW.
In any case, it's enormous, and the birds flying over the area must be getting a free tan... ;-)
Here's what I found by quickly browsing this link:
So for frequencies, it's indeed in MHz (approximately 3 to 10 MHz).
Thus, the system operates within the so-called "shortwave" band.
Regarding power, a total of 3600 kW is indicated (summing up all transmitters).
This appears to be the output power from the transmitters, before it reaches the antennas.
The 190 megawatts of Sura refer to the power at the antenna output, thus including the gain factors of the antennas.
Because the output power from the three Sura transmitters is listed as three times 250 kW.
In any case, it's enormous, and the birds flying over the area must be getting a free tan... ;-)
Another view of the antennas. Russian installations always seem to belong to another era, but don't be misled by their apparent ruggedness.
Translation by Alain Lecoq-Stepanov: The field of space physics, atmospheric science, Earth's crust, and radio wave propagation is based on the use of the versatile SURA (SURA) radio facility, a unique experimental installation in the Russian Federation.
The SURA CKP (CKP SURA) project is led by the Radiophysics Research Institute (NIIRFI), with extensive cooperation from scientists at universities and institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Scientific research conducted at the SURA CKP site will be carried out jointly with scientists from Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Kazan, and Yushar-Oli.
In:
http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/379/16227_hurricanes.html
Title: USA and Russia Suspected of Developing Weather Weapons
An excerpt:
U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force combined efforts building the facility. Open information sources indicate that the facility is used for causing active influence on the earth's ionosphere and magnetosphere. The results could be fantastic, according to scientific journals. Scientific journals claim that HAARP is capable of causing artificial aurora borealis, it can also jam radar stations of early ballistic missile detection systems, communicate with submarines in the ocean and even detect secret underground complexes of the enemy. Radio-frequency emission is capable of piercing through the ground and examine hideaways and tunnels, it can burn out electronics and destroy space satellites. The equipment can also impact the atmosphere and thus cause changes in weather. HAARP is allegedly used for causing natural disasters similar to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
The Navy and Air Force joined forces to build this HAARP facility. Some believe it could be effectively used to influence the ionosphere and even the magnetosphere. According to certain scientific journals, the results could be fantastic. It's already known that HAARP can create artificial auroras, but this text adds that such installations could disrupt missile detection radars, enable submarine communication (true), detect underground cavities and tunnels, destroy electronic equipment, and disable satellites (plausible). This equipment might also influence the atmosphere (not at all impossible, since the state of the ionosphere affects, for example, cloud cover).
Some believe these installations could trigger disasters such as hurricanes on the scale of Katrina or Rita.
In this case, it's impossible to rule it out definitively. We still poorly understand the ionosphere's impact on climate. Many believe, for instance, that solar storm bombardment could affect the ionosphere and thereby alter Earth's cloud cover. Numerous scientists argue that we should look here for the cause of global warming rather than greenhouse gases, citing strong correlation between solar activity and Earth's temperature. I believe this remains an open debate.
That said, if there are regions of the world potentially highly unstable—such as tropical cyclone breeding grounds—acting on the ionosphere could have a devastating triggering effect. In fact, it wouldn't be the installation itself causing destruction, but rather the phenomenon it might trigger and possibly "guide subtly."
We're entering a domain where... nothing is impossible. Human folly is such that everything must be considered. Climate weapons, disguising aggression as "natural phenomena," are certainly actively sought after by major powers. It would be the perfect crime, in terms of geopolitical conflicts between superpowers.